Self-managers or those who are interested in self-management:

Specific Questions asked on Registration

Q: Examples of goals for high functioning ASD boy who mostly needs social skills?

I would like to increase social and community participation and improve my social skills

Support Categories

Core - social and community participation

Capacity - Increased social and community participation

Capacity - Improved Relationships – social skills training

Capacity - Improved Daily Living – speech, psych.

Q: How to write goals that cover activities to assist gross motor skills, general coordination which can improve one’s daily living skills?

I would like to increase my independence and gross motor skills

Improved Daily Living is where OT funding lives – 1:1 or group

Consider that repeated practice leads to increased skills, so stretch budget through therapy assistant or implementation by core supports

Q: How to write goals related to housing and independent living?

I would like to:

Investigate Housing Solutions

Live independently – doesn’t mean alone

Q How does goal setting change if one is self-managing or being plan managed or agency managed?

I don’t think it does.The way that you manage funds just opens up more innovation and options in the way that you use your funds. Self Management allows for the most flexibility, innovation and efficiency of funds management if you have the capacity to do so. See resources on Self Management above.

In the past ‘respite’ focussed on the carer. The concept was that caring for a loved one with a disability created a ‘burden’ and that carers needed a ‘break from caring responsbilities’.

Short Term Accommodation focuses on the participant. It offers the participant the chance to have a break away from home, have new experiences, foster independence and build capacity.

That all might sound like words, but can everyone see the shift in the narrative away from the old way of thinking towards the new?

Our Panelists

Linda Hughes

Charmaine Fraser

LINDA HUGHES

Linda is a Director and one of the original founders of Mind the Gap. She is a self-management specialist who is committed to assisting people with disability to self-direct their support and live the life of their choosing.

Linda and her son self-manage his NDIS plan and together they find creative solutions to ensure he enjoys a good and typical life in the community.

CHARMAINE FRASER

Charmaine is a Director at Mind The Gap and has been working as a Support Coordinator with NDIS Participants since the NDIS launch in 2013. She has made it her personal quest to learn everything she can about the NDIS. (Just quietly we think she has achieved this already!)

Charmaine has two children, the eldest of which has autism, and she self-manages his NDIS plan.